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发表于2024-05-18
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Synopsis
In this groundbreaking and absorbing book, wunderkind Dr. Sharon Moalem delves back into the evolution of man to reveal hitherto unknown and astonishing ways the human body is built to survive. With this revolutionary new book, Sharon Moalem completely turns modern medicine's understanding of disease on it's head. "It is not," he argues, "that dark country to which we're exiled when we're not 'healthy.' The truth, I intend to show you, is much more interesting and encouraging." His research will reveal that many common diseases are in fact complicated blessings. In considering the question of why diseases exist, Moalem proposes that most common diseases came into existence for very good reasons. Diabetes, hemochromatosis, cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia all may exist because at some point they helped our ancestors survive some grand challenge to human existence. In turn, he also discovered that genetic and cultural differences have led to each race having different and unique ways of reacting to their environment and subsequently how they become susceptible to certain diseases.
With mesmerizing insight, Moalem demonstrates how diabetes may be a by-product of a mechanism that helped humans survive the Ice Age, why African Americans living in the north might suffer from vitamin D deficiencies, and why Asians can't drink as much alcohol as Europeans. Information in this book is extremely timely, such as Moalem's exploration of the Avian Flu, a disease that threatens to be the world's next great pandemic. Revelatory and written in an utterly engaging fashion, Sharon Moalem's book will change the way we think about our own bodies.
沙倫·莫勒姆,博士,獲奬科學傢、醫生,以及《紐約時報》暢銷書作者。其研究和作品通過醫藥學、遺傳學、曆史和生物學的相互融閤,以一種新穎而又引人入勝的方式來解釋人類的身體是如何工作的。他還是《紐約時報》暢銷書《病者生存》(Survival of the Sickest)和《性之謎》 (How Sex Works)的作者。他的著作已被翻譯成30餘種語言。
這本書加上selfish genes, 我覺得業餘遺傳愛好者就可以無敵瞭~
評分evolutionary disease
評分作為科普讀物,內容很深入。作者總能衍生到很遠的地方再拐迴來,這個寫作手法很新鮮。但我可能不會推薦周圍的朋友,“轉座子”、“錶觀遺傳學”、“細胞程序性凋亡”這些概念的齣現,已經讓這本書進入半專業水平,略難。
評分2020開篇原版書,有趣滿分,打開新世界滿分,原本計劃7天讀完,實際9天
評分First, that life is in a constant state of creation. Evolution isn’t over. Second, that nothing in our world exists in isolation. We—meaning humans and animals and plants and microbes and everything else—are all evolving together. And third, that our relationship with disease is often much more complex than we may have previously realized.
这本书很有趣。如果本人具备一定的生物学、医学基础,我可能更加明白个中妙处。 书里告诉我们:现在我们遇到的很多疾病(血色病、糖尿病、蚕豆病、皮肤癌,只记得这几个)都在漫长的进化进程中曾经帮助过我们,使我们免于灭亡。举个例子:糖尿病“是一组由于胰岛素分泌缺陷和/...
評分怀孕的头几天至关重要,在这段时间内,胎儿会有很多重要的基因给打开或者关闭。假如一位刚怀孕的母亲,在开始的几个星期只吃典型的垃圾食品,胎儿接受到的信息是: 出生后的环境将是艰难的,那将导致各种基因被开启与关闭,来适应出生后的艰难环境。导致婴儿出生时体积较小,所...
評分糖尿病很多情况是一种遗传病,为什么在进化的道路上,自然选择没有剔除掉它呢?很大原因是因为,糖尿病帮助我们度过了过去的冰河期。 13,000年前的冰河期,气温急剧下降。而体内糖份多的人,可以有效使血液抗冻不结冰。 拥有高浓度糖份的遗传习性的人,最可能度过冰河期生...
評分为什么葡萄遭遇冰霜后酿的酒更甜?为什么木蛙被冻成冰棍后,来年春天能死而复生?为什么天气冷时,人类更想嘘嘘?从植物到低等的两栖动物再到高等的人类,都发展了类似的寒冷中生存的机制。遭遇寒冷时,排除身体多余的水分,减少水凝固成冰时对生物组织的损害,提高血糖水平是...
評分看这本书的目的就是为了更长寿、更健康。 书中讲到了很多我还不知道的东西,铁是不能乱补的,它需要一个平衡;蚕豆是不能多吃的;植物雌激素会阻止生育能力的;环境的改变,会导致细胞的甲基化,导致生病等等。总之,生命处在一个持续创造的状态,进化永远不会停止,而我们为了...
Survival of the Sickest pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024